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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Reid Hoffman

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Reid Hoffman
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 5
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
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Stanford
California
Reid Garrett Hoffman
Reid G. Hoffman
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If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.
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Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one a global idea, not a strictly American one.
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There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
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No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
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One of the things is when you think, Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.
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People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
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The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.
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You gotta be both flexible and persistent.
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All human beings are entrepreneurs.
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You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
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Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.
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Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.
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During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.
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When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.
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It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.
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I'm sympathetic to the people who go, Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently, but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.
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Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
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I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've climbed, I'm always looking at the next mountain to climb.
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Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.
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